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The main campus of Georgia College and State University, a public institution of higher learning, is in Milledgeville, Georgia, about 100 miles (160 kilometers) southeast of Atlanta, Georgia. The university also offers classes in Macon and Warner Robins, both in Georgia. The institution was founded in 1889 as Georgia Normal and Industrial College, a school for women. It became Georgia State College for Women in 1922 and the Women’s College of Georgia in 1961. Upon becoming coeducational in 1967, it was renamed Georgia College at Milledgeville (later shortened to just Georgia College). To reflect its new mission as “Georgia’s public liberal arts university,” the school adopted its present name in 1996.

Total enrollment consists of several thousand students, most of whom are undergraduates. The university awards bachelor’s and master’s degrees in a variety of fields and a doctor of nursing practice degree. Programs are offered through the College of Arts and Sciences, the J. Whitney Bunting College of Business, the John H. Lounsbury College of Education, and the College of Health Sciences.

Georgia College and State University’s varsity sports teams, known as the Bobcats, compete in Division II of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). School colors are blue and green.

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